Wednesday 31st March - On the road to Haast

 Wednesday 31st March - On the road to Haast

It was a beautiful morning this morning when we set off for Haast, and it stayed like that all the way.

The scenery got more and more awesome as we went - hills became mountains, lakes were serene and the wind had died away. This is Lake Hawea!


We followed the Mataroroa River for quite a way up to the Blue Pools:-



Here is the Matarora River on its way to the sea.






On the way we met a herd of cows. They really didn't care about us much:-



When we got to the Haast River it had enormous flat river beds. The hills rose up from them vertically!


We found an amazing "shop" at Haast that had everything in it - a cafe with nice seating and a good food cabinet, a mini-supermarket, an Internet section for $2 a session and a friendly girl behind the counter:-


The Camp site at Haast River Motels and Holiday Park, not far away, is more of a motel really with the caravan park out the back. The receptionist was very helpful. She took us on a walk before we decided to stay. This place is just great with all the facilities that we need - I was able to sit in their comfortable bar area to do the Blog -in an amazing setting:-


We went to the local garage where a friendly mechanic fixed the headlight on the car. Right beside the garage was the DOC Information Centre which had an amazing display about the origins of this whole area - geology, plants and animals:-





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